Ep #46 - "How To Follow Your Heart with the Penguin Lady" with Guest Dyan deNapoli (Video)
“Thrive” with Heather Poduska
English - July 27, 2017 13:00 - 39 minutes - 58.5 MB Video - ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsBusiness Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Thrive Episode Ep #46 - "How To Follow Your Heart with the Penguin Lady" with Guest Dyan deNapoli
Call her “the Penguin Lady”. Dyan deNapoli is a penguin aquarist, author of the award-winning book, “The Great Penguin Rescue” where she tells the story of rescuing over 40,000 penguins off the coast of South Africa from a massive oil spill. The penguin rescue paved her way to be a TED speaker in 2011.
She was part of Homeward Bound --a 3-week expedition in Antarctica with 75 other women-of-science invitees.This expedition aims to heighten the influence and impact of women with a science background to influence policy and decision making, as it shapes the planet.
Now, Dyan is the head of her own educational company and gives lectures locally and globally on penguin conservation and delivers interactive penguin programs to all ages.In 2018, she is going to return for the Global Perspectives Guest Speaker Series for the Lindblad Expedition & National Geographic.
On today’s show, Dyan shares the pivotal penguin rescue experience that impacted her being.
She will also share what like to be one of just the few women in the whole world to honor the call of the wild…
On this episode...
06:20 - Dyan tells her journey to being her accidental career as a penguin expert.
08:26 - How did Dyan gamble on getting her internship in a penguin conservatory?
10:59- What did Dyan learn most about herself from the penguins?
12:00 - How did the pivotal penguin rescue experience impact Dyan?
21:51 - How did taking care of the penguins made Dyan a TEDx speaker?
25:25 - Penguins are an indicator species. What are they an indicator of?
28:48 - How can you as an individual contribute to alleviating global warming and climate change effects?
35:12- How important is it for someone to have their dream gig and act on the journey of achieving it?
36:40-.Dyan shares what it means for her to thrive!
To find out more about Dyan deNapoli, check her website www.thepenguinlady.com .